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December 14, 2024, 9:15 PM

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Reuters:
Document: Trump's transition team seeks to repeal a crash-reporting rule opposed by Tesla and other car makers and “liberalize” autonomous vehicle regulation  —  The Trump transition team wants the incoming administration to drop a car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Elon Musk's Tesla …
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
An analysis of App Store rankings shows how market saturation for AI-based creative apps is making it harder to find good apps that use AI in more focused ways  —  Many high-ranking AI apps feel like an attempted cash grab, and it's not easy to spot the trash from the treasure.
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Daniel Kuhn / The Block:
Justin Sun's BiT Global, which recently became a key stakeholder in the wBTC ecosystem, sues Coinbase for planning to delist wBTC after launching rival cbBTC  —  - Justin Sun's BiT Global is suing Coinbase for delisting wBTC and launching a competing product.
Erin Griffith / New York Times:
A look at the opposing VC models of Benchmark, which maintains its traditional small-scale approach, and Andreessen Horowitz, which pursues aggressive expansion  —  Three decades ago, five men formed a venture capital firm on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley with a simple pitch: Small is beautiful.
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Politico:
Trump plans to appoint Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes to lead the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, which oversees the US intelligence community  —  Nunes is CEO of Truth Social and will continue leading Trump Media & Technology Group, a public company with a nearly $8 billion market cap.
Nicola Jones / Nature:
AI companies, running out of the conventional training data sets, may be forced to shift away from big, all-purpose LLMs to smaller, more specialized models  —  By -  The Internet is a vast ocean of human knowledge, but it isn't infinite.  And artificial intelligence (AI) researchers have nearly sucked it dry.
Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal:
How Viam, founded in 2020 by MongoDB co-founder Eliot Horowitz, helps companies make anything “smart”, including pizza buffets and bathroom lines  —  Entrepreneur Eliot Horowitz, who founded $22 billion database company MongoDB, is betting on artificial intelligence in the physical world
Jacky Wong / Wall Street Journal:
Japanese chipmaker Kioxia's dramatic valuation drop from $18B in 2018 to $5.1B in its upcoming IPO is due to its high debt and lower AI exposure than rivals  —  Kioxia is going for a discount due to its high debt and lower AI exposure than rivals  —  Japan's last blockbuster initial public offering …
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Evinced, which helps companies build accessible websites and apps, raised a $55M Series C led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $112M  —  Making sure your software is accessible is fast becoming a must rather than a nice-to-have, and Evinced is one of a wave of startups helping make that happen.

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